skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stein's paradox is bogus. Somebody needs to say that.

Here's one wikipedia example:

> Suppose we are to estimate three unrelated parameters, such as the US wheat yield for 1993, the number of spectators at the Wimbledon tennis tournament in 2001, and the weight of a randomly chosen candy bar from the supermarket. Suppose we have independent Gaussian measurements of each of these quantities. Stein's example now tells us that we can get a better estimate (on average) for the vector of three parameters by simultaneously using the three unrelated measurements.

Here's what's bogus about this: the "better estimate (on average)" is mathematically true ... for a certain definition of "better estimate". But whatever that definition is, it is irrelevant to the real world. If you believe you get a better estimate of the US wheat yield by estimating also the number of Wimbledon spectators and the weight of a candy bar in a shop, then you probably believe in telepathy and astrology too.
It is hard to talk about leisure, when definition is not clear. I’m not sure what yours is, but I try to stick with the one I think the article is using, namely energy to spend on top of survival efforts.
I understand that you have energy to spend, but you are stuck in the city dweller passivity the article talks about. Being mindful of the situation is the first step to take action changing it.
SpaceX Raptor engine was designed using a full engine combustion simulator, without which the engine would have been impossible [1]. Not to mention the rapid evolution from Raptor 1 to 3 [2]

Jet aircraft are 70% more efficient since 1967, largely from simulation [3], similar in automotive

Unclear how the NVIDIA H100 would have been designed by hand-drawing 80 billion transistors

Net-net: Computers necessary, but we need much better UIs and systems. Maybe AI will help us improve this

[1] https://youtu.be/vYA0f6R5KAI?si=SG1vLMMl8l3DuCYN

[2] https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/04/spacex-raptor-3-engine...

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft

> Jet airliners became 70% more fuel efficient between 1967 and 2007, 40% due to improvements in engine efficiency and 30% from airframes.
Helldivers 2 would be a one hit wonder, if not for the successful predecessor, Helldivers.
I've posted this and nothing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40106956
Definitely need some specialist help; I'm sure Seattle Zoo has a leopard they could borrow.
That is why there are public STUN servers available by google that any one can use:
stun.l.google.com:19302
stun1.l.google.com:19302
stun2.l.google.com:19302
stun3.l.google.com:19302
stun4.l.google.com:19302
I've been always wondering why do we even need specialized build tools and why does the community around every new programming language or framework feel obliged to invent their own, implemented in their native language. Why can't we just write a script in Python or any other scripting language which would fetch the deps, invoke the compilers, run the tests and spit out the package?

I can't answer myself because I only have basic theoretical idea of what build tools do, I have always mostly been using IDEs like VisualStudio which do everything behind the scenes in a press of a button.
Valve is well covered here. Like any other platform they only make payouts to publishers / developers after a big delay so they'll have plenty of Sony's money to cover refunds.
kde connect runs on laptops and phones?

https://kdeconnect.kde.org/download.html
'Hobbit Camps' Rebirthed Italian Fascism
> The Option type seems to have various standard Rust methods like expect()

Isn't that value()?
Searching "how to do X on Linux" reliably returns "how to do X on Windows" and vice versa.

There seems to be a part of algorithm smart enough to figure out that both Linux and Windows are operating systems, but not smart enough to realize that the difference usually matters a lot for the person asking the question.
Tips for getting started with open source
I think the essence is he bid up the price of some not terribly liquid stocks by buying a lot of them. He then borrowed money against those overpriced stocks he held.

That can work if greater fools come and buy the overpriced stocks back off you but didn't in this case, ending with the stock prices falling back down and the lenders getting stiffed.
Building an interactive Swiss train coloring world with my nephew
Didn't get the part of steals confidential data?

It can not do anything without your permissions. All websites are well scoped and run in their private environment in a web browser.
Zig Zag by Vladimir Slepnev [webgame]
AM radio is most useful for its resilience in the worst case scenarios and for its reach to underserved populations.

It benefits from comparative simplicity and longer range than FM. It can also be trivially connected to digital modes for even longer ranges and reliable data transmission.

Crude receivers can be made from readily available materials and require no local source of power.

Maintaining a national network of AM broadcasting stations by ensuring economic viability is a low cost method of ensuring communications resiliency for the nation under the worst of circumstances. I can’t say for the difficulty of filtering EMI from EVs, but assuming that a vehicle already will have some kind of audio system, AM radio is a <2$ add to an existing radio receiver.

Think of it as a 2$ per car one time tax to ensure improved worst case CCC capability for the nation in the face of the most acute threats to the population.
Zig is the {cross,}compiler and the build tool and the package retriever (no package repository) all in one.
It sucks but it's easy to review and avoid, probably could be checked statically by linters too.
We need a STUN server to traverse NAT and get IP addresses but it does not use server to store or share the file. Only ice candidates are gathered, discovered and a handshake is facilitated by a STUN server. If that is not possible it shows error.
Paint it white and then catch it like a normal horse, duh.
The economics of games are complex. I don’t understand why Arrowhead should take the blame here.
That is the same blabla I read from many of your brothers in faith. Up to 2019, there are some studies that clearly show that the VAERS data underestimates the bad side effects of (some) vaccines, up to a factor of 100.

Of course it is possible that the highly political, near-religious atmosphere during the Covid-Circus biased the reporting for the mRNA vaccines in the other direction. But this has to be objectively studied. That never happened. One of the many things that make me deeply distrust the mRNA vaccines.

Your very general statement "so you can pretend that vaccines are a bad thing" shows your propaganda. I am vaccinated against several pathogens. But the topic "immune system" is really complicated, the knowledge up to date is not sufficient to force people. Especially vaccination of children has to be thoroughly justified. Search on Google Scholar for "Peter Aabye".
I really wish that some company somewhere would just accept a couple of interface options and form-factors and promise to keep them available over the long-haul and be successful with it (and that one of their designs would include a Wacom EMR stylus).

The Samsung Galaxy Book 12 was about perfect for me, but when I finally had to look for a replacement there weren't any running Windows, so I had to move up to a Galaxy Book 3 Pro 360 (which interestingly, its replacement seems to use the same case).
You have to trust the original developers either way, but the distribution mechanism is much weaker for a web app. The server / hosting platform can be compromised, the code can change at any time and even depend on the client that's connecting, and there's no software signing providing non-repudiation.

Not saying native apps are universally better, but I do think their treat model tends to be a better match for encrypted messaging. This comment on Signal explained it well: https://community.signalusers.org/t/google-to-retire-chrome-...
Wayback Machine link, site looks like it’s down (probably from HN traffic?): https://web.archive.org/web/20230525081516/https://forums.gu...
Good points...Thank you.

Now more I think about it, more I believe Open Source will be way forward for it...
> sleeping 15 hrs a day

You know, Einstein slept a lot.
Prototyping with children is such a rewarding task, thanks for sharing the process!
I don't really follow your logic ...

ChatGPT is a brand that belongs to OpenAI, that's ... not really hard to understand.
The paper being written about wouldn't exist if this was a OneWeb project. And that's transitive to the post and comments
Scaling up LLMs is only going to go so far, and it will yield diminishing marginal returns on all of that money, compute, and data. It’s a regime of exponential increases in inputs for linear gains in the outputs - barring some technological breakthroughs which could come from anywhere, not just from OpenAI.
and all the humans were cheaply amused by the animal temporarily breaking free from its own captivity albeit thousands of miles and an ocean away from where it actually belongs.

petting zoos are still a thing? how quaint.
Sending Emails to my 3-year-old
Tangential, but let’s talk collective nouns of animals. I’ve encountered people who are happy to know what a collective of x, and their amusement about how well the noun fits an animal group.

It seems to be lost on the general population how deliberate word choice ends up being, and how certain people throughout time have tried to make some words happen. Mark Fraunfelder comes to mind around some Internet lingo. Some sticks, some doesn’t.
Can you clarify what is meant by "structural advantage"?
nice, reminded me of https://grugbrain.dev/
Mass killings by communist governments are a thing. And that's just one of the bad things about communism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_communist_...
This article flip flops confusing "England" and the "UK".

England is not the UK. This article discusses England and its privatisation of water services. The author should pay better attention to these specifics.
This gives me a chance to bring up my favorite collective noun for a group of animals: a bloat of hippopotami. Although a "dazzle" of zebras comes a second close. One of my favorite quirks of English, don't think other languages have our penchant for giving animal groups special names.
Alien and Star Wars of course.
May be they heard about the adventures of Marty from NYC, the zebra that successfully escaped to Africa [1] and decided to try their luck.

[1]. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar_(2005_film)
How have I solved this problem?

Easy - https://strftime.org
There would be no impact if this game was some MMORPG or mostly singleplayer title.

Helldivers is PvE game-as-a-service and it's model works best when network effects are strong. Basically a lot of people are playing such games because their friends are playing it. And the most opinionated and active people are the ones who bring their friends into the game.

So even if relatively small percent of active playerbase will leave the game they'll likely to take some of their friends with them, etc.
Does it matter? What's the legal view on "I downloaded some data which turns out to be copied from a copyrighted source and it was probably trivial to figure it out, then trained the LLM on it"? I mean, they work on data processing - of course they would expect that if someone responds with 10 paragraphs in reporting style, under a link to NYT... that's just the article.
I hated ghost of mars and prince of darkness.
Walk me through this interaction. Do I search your team’s chats for that one time the intern found your build was flaky, or do I take to YAQS to discuss my build failure? Because the interaction is going to go like this:

Me: I’m trying to build //big/important/project, but I’m getting this error on my Mac: “GShoe 1.3 required, but not found.” I depend on it here in my BUILD file: cl/42069. Can someone help me?

A: We deprecated GShoe last year, what are you trying to do? This isn’t something we support. Say, who are you? Don’t you work in a completely different org? We do all our builds on Cloudtop anyways…

Me: I was just trying to get acquainted with the code, this GShoe integration is something that I was interested in playing with.

A: Wait, this isn’t even your job? Hang on, why does your CL add butts.txt?

Me: Uh, I’m doing a thing…for Memegen?

A: …

More seriously though, checking your chats is something I can do myself without imposing myself on you, and it includes basically everything you’ve ever talked about rather than just what you see fit to publish and stand behind. I don’t need to have to wait until I’m stuck enough to ask a question, make sure you understand what I want, nor do I have to argue with you whether what I’m doing is appropriate or not. Or, more likely, I’m not going to get anyone spending time to reply anyways, because your promo committee is not going to search you on MOMA to see how many people you made happy online. So I’d really rather just trawl your chats and send you back documentation or questions based on that rather than you taking a moral stance that deleting your chat history means my life is better or easier.
me too :) actually NetBSD is where I use Dillo the most! Congratulations to the Dillo Team.

And https://daemonforums.org/ works great with dillo, with dillo you can even log into daemonforums. The ID ywill not be saved, but AFAIK no other forum allows login when in dillo.
https://archive.ph/RUY63
Doesn't matter if different people are responsible for number of accounts and from revenue... One will push for this and other one likely have not even noticed...
It was clearly advertised on the steam page, but also on launch you had a full screen banner that said you MUST sign in with a PSN account to play this game. It's just that until now you could click cancel and the game would still launch.

So no, nothing was "added".
I share my desktop PC with my kids and wife (although, TBH, I use the PC 90% of the time and the rest of the family uses the remaining 10%). Although we use the PC one at a time, being able to each have his own environment does help. So multiuser is cool for me.
thank you! Conversations with kids can be quite hilarious. And they are always honest :)
Less than a problem with ccache, and OpenBSD solved the time_t issue long ago.

But sometimes I envy common lispers, you livepatch any crap like nothing. Also, 9front: megafast system recompilation so the worst of the issue would be rebooting a machine.
Rust does "borrow checking at runtime" with RefCell<>.
This is assuming the theory.

A statistical model of orbits, without a theory of gravity, is less compressed when you assume more objects. Take all the apparent positions of objects in the sky, {(object, x1, x2, t),...}. Find a statistical model of each point at t+1, so y = (o, x1, x2, t+1). There is no sense in which you're deriving a new object in the sky from this statistical model -- it is only a compression of observable orbits.

When you say, "if you have the new planet", you're changing the data generating process (theory) to produce a new distribution of points {(o' x1', x2', t'), ...} to include an unseen object. You're then comparing two data generating models (two theories) for their simplicity. You're not comparing the associative models.

Call the prior theory 8-planets, so 8P generates x1,x2,t; and the new theory 9P which generates x1',x2',t'

You're then making a conditional error distribution when comparing two rival theories. The 9P theory will minimize this error.

But in no sense can the 9P theory be derived from the initial associative statistical distribution. You are, based on theory (, science, knowledge, etc.) choosing to add a planet, vs. eg., correcting for measurement error, modifiying newton's laws, changing the angle of the earth wrt the solar system... or one of an infinite number of theories which all produce the same error minimization

The sense of "prediction" that science uses (via Popper et al.) is deriving the existence of novel phenomena that do not follow from prior observable distributions.
Irrelevant - the product page says otherwise and the game itself was explicit in telling you that a PSN account is required on launch.
I mean, any higher and I’ll have to start thinking about printed circuit boards, shielded wires, and non-coat-hanger-based antennas…frankly if 30,000 kilocycles can’t get the job done, I’ll just have to light the thing on fire and use it to make smoke signals.

Best regards,
50 years ago
> If there are better solutions than submodules for these I would love to know.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/vcpkg/concepts/registries and

In essence:

- Publish your local/private mirror of the 3rd-party dep

- Edit the portfile for each dependency to point to your private repo, usually in `vcpkg_from_git`, `vcpkg_from_github`, `vcpkg_from_gitlab`, or `vcpkg_from_bitbucket`

- Publish these portfiles to your private vcpkg registry

- Set the registry in vcpkg-configuration.json (or the `vcpkg-configuration` field in vcpkg.json) to your private registry

Done.
It definitely is true that a design which could easily be created by hand is harder to create on a computer. The things where computers shine are actually managimg the complexity of a large and complicated systems.

What I think the article leaves unspoken (but implied) is the "curse of tools", if you give a person tools he is likely to use them, even if they might not be applicable. Meaning that someone might decide to create a complex solution to a problem, simply because the tools he has been given allow him to do so. I think it is always very important to keep in mind what has been achieved with the very limited tools of the past and the immense ingenuity of the people who worked within those limits.
Show HN: Full-text search of over 2 million comments on Guardian Books
Hi everyone. This is a hobby project I made with Nextjs.

I often browse user comments on book-related pages on the Guardian website to see discussion about books I've read or to find new books to read. There isn't a great way to search through those comments so I put them into a Meilisearch instance. The comment threads are stored in Postgres using the adjacency list model and can take a while to load (maybe someday I'll reimplement it in a closure table).
Google always had more of stanfield vibes to me.
Can this Assistant actually do something? Or just answer questions? I personally don’t use home assistants for answering questions but for switching on lights or outlets.
Australia was also under British rule until the 1980s
>>But it was hidden

When you start the game, you literally get a full screen banner that says a PSN account is required to play and you must sign in. It's just that until now you could click cancel and the game would still launch.

How can anyone call it "hidden" is literally beyond me. It's not hidden on page 527 of the EULA or something - it's literally said explicitly on a full screen banner shown to every player who has started the game. Not to mention it's mentioned on the Steam store page.
Not sure what you mean by modern, to me modernity started in the 1600s.

If you mean something like 'contemporary', then I'd like to mention that casino-like elements where rather common in the video game boom of the 1990s. Could for example listen to how old-fashioned Sonic sounded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsa_4s3CjmI
(Disclaimer, stats noob here) - I thought the point was that, you have a better chance of being -overall- closer to the mean (i.e., the 3D euclidean distance between your guess and the mean would be the smallest, on average), even though you may not necessarily have improved your odds of guessing any of the single individual means.

So it's not that "you get a better estimate of the US wheat yield by estimating also the number of Wimbledon spectators and the weight of a candy bar in a shop", it's simply that you get a better estimate for the combined vector of the three means. (Which, in this case, the vector of the three means is probably meaningless, since the three data sets are entirely unrelated. But we could also imagine scenarios where that vector is meaningful.)

Am I misunderstanding something?
Outdated, how? I just gave an example of seeing targeted ads related to a conversation had minutes before.

Not actionable, how? GDPR hasn't stopped companies from collecting the data, it just added a bunch of roadblocks which are being overcome via dark patterns that make the majority of people consent to data sharing.
> Cash App is, if you squint, a wallet. Block product managers would probably heavily dispute this characterization and say, truthfully, that their core user feels like they’re using Cash App rather than using their linked Bank of America debit card when they are paying with Cash App.

APMs

The article is mostly good.

But it would have been munch more clear if Alternative Payment Method (APM) was directly acknowledged.

Because it’s easy to conflate wallets from APMs.
> Windows 10 feels old in comparison

Having a proper "copy" and "paste" in the right click menu in Explorer (or whatever is left of it) is "old". /s
A turn-based or real-time strategy game wherein your civilization advances via diplomacy (spies & ambassadors) and stealth operations (commandos, special forces, etc)
This was known right from the launch. no surprises here.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/553850/view/41968685...

Attention Helldivers,

Due to technical issues at the launch of HELLDIVERS™ 2, we allowed the linking requirements for Steam accounts to a PlayStation Network account to be temporarily optional. That grace period will now expire. See details below in this post.

Account linking plays a critical role in protecting our players and upholding the values of safety and security provided on PlayStation and PlayStation Studios games. This is our main way to protect players from griefing and abuse by enabling the banning of players that engage in that type of behaviour. It also allows those players that have been banned the right to appeal.

As such, as of May 6th, all new HELLDIVERS 2 players on Steam will be required to connect their Steam account to a PlayStation Network account. Current players on Steam will start to see the mandatory login from May 30th and will be required to have linked a Steam and PlayStation Network account by June 4th. PlayStation Network accounts are free and easy to set up using this link
https://www.playstation.com/support/account/create-account-f...

We understand that while this may be an inconvenience to some of you, this step will help us to continue to build a community that you are all proud to be a part of.

Many thanks for your continued support of HELLDIVERS 2!

Sony Interactive Entertainment
Acquiring dependencies is a hard problem. There are generic solutions to at least parts of this, stuff like nix and bazel, but most devs choose an “easier” tool that’s tightly integrated with their language ecosystem rather than one that brings a lot of seemingly unneeded upfront complexity.
Everything you said would all be absolutely true if we reversed course some time between 2008 and 2017.
* Use 文Ａ, and ensure you can navigate to the menu only via symbols

* The first element should be "use default/system language"

* Language names should be displayed untranslated: "Deutsch, English, français"

* Optionally display the language in the currently selected language